So why has this tradition lasted? Probably because it hits the perfect holiday sweet spot: a little awkward, a little romantic, and ritualistic enough to feel charming rather than forced. Mistletoe ...

It’s a holiday tradition. Get some mistletoe, hang it in the house or hold it above your head, find that special someone, stand together under the plant and smooch away. Seems innocent enough, but ...

For many people, mistletoe is a pest, while for others, it is a symbol of Christmas cheer. The origin of mistletoe as a Yuletide symbol came from the Norse and the Druids. Both had traditions that ...

Mistletoe is often added to holiday decorations as a way to share love and a kiss in the Christmas season. While its origins are in Europe, there is one native mistletoe species that grows in Virginia ...

The plant mistletoe has been associated with Christmas and kissing. Where did this tradition originate, and what is mistletoe? Mistletoe is a plant with pointy, green, leathery leaves, with waxy ...

Nearly 1,500 couples gathered in Washington, D.C. to help set a new Guinness record for the most people kissing under a ...

We fill the holidays with loving gestures, but I find it odd we smooch beneath a sprig of mistletoe, a potentially poisonous, parasitic plant. Tradition can come with a strange twist. Through the ...

It's long been known as a romantic symbol of Christmas, but the reality is that mistletoe has a darker side to it. For one, it can be poisonous for humans. And what's more, if you find that it's ...

Mistletoe, the same plant you kiss under at holiday time, may be an effective aid against certain types of cancer. A semi-parasitic plant, mistletoe grows on a variety of common trees including apple, ...

Money hangs from trees in Central Texas. Mistletoe clumps dangle from bare mesquite limbs like Christmas ornaments, and Robert "Speedy" Tiemann will pay for them. "Christmas wouldn't be the same ...

Episodes of “Monsters Inside Me” on Animal Planet demonstrate how internal parasites can slowly drag a human being down over many years’ time. It got me motivated to finally cut the mistletoe out of ...

For the Druids, mistletoe was sacred. For us, it's a cute ornament and maybe an excuse to steal a kiss. And of course it's a Christmas tradition. But for a forest, mistletoe might be much more ...